In 1996, Lynne Brick, president and founder of Brick Bodies and Lynne Brick’s health centers, remembers having to wear three tampons and a pad to get through teaching a step class because she was bleeding so much. An ultrasound showed that she had an intrauterine fibroid tumor the size of a grapefruit. The next day, she struggled to get out of bed. At the hospital, doctors told her she was seven centimeters dilated. “My body was literally trying to spit this thing out of me,” she says. Brick and her husband, Victor, had been thinking about having a third child; instead, she had a total hysterectomy. Read Entire Article